Hard times: it pays to be practical in an age of academic austerity
Administrators favour funding applied subjects over 'pure' and 'soft' disciplines. David Matthews writes
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHResearch Programme GrantsHealth Technology Assessment programme• Award winner: Mark Everard• Institution: Sheffield Children's Hospital• Value: £766,966SABRE (...
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Maladies and histories in a patient weighing of the past
The editor of a major new history of medicine brings two disciplines' perspectives to bear. Matthew Reisz reports
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ItalySeismology shaken by trialThe decision to charge a number of Italian seismologists with man-slaughter for failing to predict a deadly earthquake has provoked outrage from their academic peers. A...
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UK-Afghan joint venture survives the bomb blast
John Morgan on British Council vow to continue scholarly mentoring work despite deadly attack
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Peers, review your actions
Help usher in universal open access - stop giving free labour to publishers that lock research away, says Michael Taylor
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Unshackled minds help institutions to conquer the greatest heights
The top-ranked universities allow their scholars the most freedom, a lesson many governments have yet to learn, warns Terence Karran
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Bleak vision for student imports due to lack of 'oversight'
Feeder colleges for non-EU students may go under as third fall foul of rule change. Simon Baker writes
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Oz visa strategy may leave UK out of position
Australia is to relax its visa rules for overseas students, increasing the competition faced by UK universities just as the coalition government tightens British regulations.
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Will's quill or not Will's quill...
...that is the question, but scholars are arguing over whether they should ask it. Matthew Reisz reports
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Labour's plan to cap tuition fees may be a 'graduate tax'
Top earners would 'overpay' under scheme vaunted at party's annual conference. Simon Baker reports
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Lancaster and Liverpool aim to strengthen global hand with 'federal structure' collaboration
Lancaster University and the University of Liverpool could unite to form a "federal structure" akin to the University of California as other research-intensive universities explore collaborations to...
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Scottish matchmaker earns scorn for proposal
The Scottish Funding Council has stressed that "no decisions have been taken" after it emerged that it had asked the University of Dundee and the University of Abertay Dundee to consider merging.
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Robust UK research climate cannot be taken for granted
Highly productive sector must be creative to keep up without new funds, study says. Paul Jump reports
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Academic life unfair, say women of a certain age
Women in their forties and early fifties are the least satisfied among principal investigators with the way they are treated by their universities, a survey has found.